Bowling for Columbine

On September 17th, 2004, a freshman of the University of Colorado at Boulder was found dead at a fraternity house. Lynn Gordon Bailey Jr. or known as “Gordie” was discovered dead at the Chi Psi Fraternity house at the university. Gordie was pledging for membership for the fraternity along with twenty-six other pledges. They all became part of a ritual of the fraternity where they were forced to drink excessive amounts of alcohol following racial slurs to be written on them. To begin the ritual,…

tragedy that took place on April 20, 1999. Columbine High School students, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, murdered 12 students and one teacher and injured 21 additional students. The highly planned and intricate attack involved a fire bomb to divert firefighters, propane tanks converted to bombs placed in the cafeteria, 99 explosive devices, and car bombs. The pair eventually took their own lives once they completed their task. (Cullen 18). The Columbine High School massacre will forever be…

Thousands of children in the world are committing suicide because of bullying in the real world and in social media. Bullies are like the plague, they infect, they even kill innocent lives! Bullies should be held criminally because they make students lose confidence and stay silent when they’re being bullied, the victims of bullying commit suicide, and if they’re confronted, they pretend like they didn’t know the consequences. Research reveals that 4,400 students commit suicide because of…

On December, 2012 something happened that no one wishes would happen, at 9:30 am in Newtown, Connecticut there was a shooting.This shooting happened at an elementary school, possible the worst place for it to happen. There was a total of twenty-six deaths, twenty of them were little kids ages six to seven, the rest of them were adults. The first police officer arrived in two minutes and forty-one seconds after a nine one one call was made…

John Glynn, author of the article “Guns and Games” says, “When an explicitly violent act occurs, we tend to experience … a string of cognitive preconceptions that involve an individual’s desire to relate the incident to previously held beliefs” (Glynn 51). Ever since the number of school shootings rose, there has been speculation that violent video games are to blame. In Glynn’s article “Guns and Games” the benefits of gaming are evaluated along with an explanation determining if there is a…

Two articles focus on school shootings. The reasons why students become shooters is explained by Jesse Signal. The preventive actions that can be taken towards school shootings are given by Frank J. Robertz. The article "Deadly Dreams: What Motivates School Shootings?' written by Frank J. Robertz and published on Scientific American on July 30th, 2007 describes how young adults become school shooters. Robertz explains the process of how over a long time adolescents start being more…

The Columbine shooting provided a model that has inspired others to commit such an act. In their article, they analyze the cultural meaning behind school shootings and study how school shooters use cultural products such as books, films, music and now the internet…

Victims According to Bill Avery speech, “Now that’s being blown into dishonest narrative about hurting people killing people, planning to kill people. That’s just not true. We destroy government property.” Sergeant Brain McDonnell was a San Francisco police officer, who was wounded in the bombing of Park Police Station bombing in 1970. He was close to the blast and was serial injured and was rush to the local hospital where, three days later he dies from his wounds. Sergeant McDonnell served 20…

Twenty-six people (20 students between the ages of 6 and 7 years old and six adults) were shot and killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School by 20-year-old Adam Lanza in Newtown, Connecticut on December 14 2012. At some point before Adam went to Sandy Hook Elementary School, investigators believed that he killed his mother, Nancy Lanza. Before living the house Adam stole three guns (A semi-automatic AR-15 assault rifle, Pistols and a Sig Sauer) and then proceeded into the elementary school,…

For most of us, religion is a way to be able to tell right from wrong, and a guidance to how to be a good person. While it is open to interpretation, some people take religious matters into their own hands, and form crazy ideologies which are quite scary to think of. Welcome to the Top 5: Creepiest Religious Cults. Number 1: The small town of Fall River, Massachusetts may seem like any ordinary town, but it's got a very dark, and disturbing history. It all started with the brutal murder of 17…